The problem with self-driving cars: who controls the code?
Should autonomous vehicles be programmed to choose who they kill when they crash? And who gets access to the code that determines those decisions?The Trolley Problem is an ethical brainteaser that’s been entertaining philosophers since it was posed by Philippa Foot in 1967:A runaway train will slaughter five innocents tied to its track unless you pull a lever to switch it to a siding on which one man, also innocent and unawares, is standing. Pull the lever, you save the five, but kill the
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